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IT'S TIME TO VOTE ON THE 10 FINALISTS FOR THE 2019
GARD AWARD FOR ARTS AND COMMUNITY LIFE!
It's time to exercise your member benefits by reviewing and voting for the 2019 Gard Award!
We had nearly 40 submissions this year, which were adjudicated by a 3-person panel: theatre artist, Ryan Conarro;
poet, artist, and community organizer, Christy NaMee Eriksen; and local arts leader and historian, Maryo Gard Ewell.
This annual award, named after local arts pioneer and arts-based community development visionary, Robert E. Gard, is meant to celebrate a fantastic project at the intersection of arts and community life that came to fruition in 2018.
Please take a look at the projects and vote before May 3, 2019!
They range across the country and across disciplines, including civic engagement through theatremaking in Arkansas, a "Year of Play" in rural Minnesota, a temporary public art
exhibition intersecting arts, foodways, and inequitable housing in Nashville, a set of arts-based "pre-enactments" to imagine the future of Indianapolis, a public art festival exploring the Underground Railroad in Cleveland, an Art Truck in Arlington, and
more!
Since voting is only open to members, you'll need to
log in to vote!
Check out the 10 finalists below, and please join me in celebrating some of the amazing "arts and" work happening throughout the country this year!
Clay Lord
Americans for the Arts
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ARLINGTON ART TRUCK
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A mobile platform for fostering artistically enhanced civic engagement and increasing access to the arts by delivering cultural experiences in Arlington, VA, in a unique, fun
way.
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ARTS IN CORRECTIONS
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Six Art for Justice Forums in Michigan, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, New York, and California to push for bringing art back into correctional facilities across the country.
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BUILD BETTER TABLES
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An ongoing collaboration between artists and a transitional housing organization using cooking, eating, and making art, particularly writing, printmaking, painting, and photography
to tell the greater community that homelessness is not the only chapter in any person's narrative.
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COMMUNITY COLLABARTIVE
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A multi-site temporary public art installation in Nashville addressing community, foodways, income inequality, and housing including a community garden "speakeasy," free seed
libraries, and a dinner series.
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YEAR OF PLAY
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A multidisciplinary, artist-led initiative that invited the community of Fergus Falls, MN to use art and culture to inspire play for all ages, while celebrating the community's
assets, promoting wellness, facilitating community interaction, and creating a sense of fun and wonder.
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PREENACT INDY
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A hybrid festival/theatrical production that engaged Indianapolis residents in an interactive, site-specific "pre-enactment" of a world that ought to be, deriving their stories
from both the history and from their hopes and dreams for the future.
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PRICE HILL CREATIVE
COMMUNITY FESTIVAL
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A free, annual neighborhood festival in Cincinnati that uses collaborative performing arts to build a more creative and inclusive community through more than 60 performances.
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WORCESTER CULTURAL
COALITION POPUP
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A new intersection of community and creativity committed to arts for all that gives residents of all ages and backgrounds the time, space, tools, and training to celebrate, share
their cultures, and create their futures.
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SOUTHSIDE CIVIC LAB
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A multi-part artistic exploration of neighborhood gentrification, food deserts, and housing insecurity in Fayetteville, AR, with Listening Parties, ambassadors, a three-day community
visioning festival and a community-developed original play.
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STATION HOPE
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An annual, free, one-night-only multi-arts festival featuring more than 50 works by 250 artists from across Cleveland that reflects on the city's history of the Underground Railroad
and explore themes of social justice through jubilant, immersive community celebration.
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Washington, DC Office
1000 Vermont Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20005
T 202.371.2830
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New York City Office
One East 53rd Street
New York, NY 10022
T 212.223.2787
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